Ryan Campbell Flex/Flash Developer Blog

Hibernate, Spring and Tapestry

Although I love perl, I decided lately I wanted to try a different language for web development. Since I hate php, I thought Java was a great choice. The number of frameworks available for server-side Java development is overwelming. On one hand this makes chosing which technologies to use frustrating, but at least it shows there is a large community behind Java. After reading, reading and reading some more I settled on using Hibernate for database persistence, Spring for the middle tier and Tapestry for the web front end.